In January 2015 I earned a Ph.D. degree at the Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) with a dissertation titled Mathematical programming based approaches for classes of complex network problems, where I proposed and developed an optimization based framework for the statistical inference and analysis of individual decisions under network constraints and effects.
Despite my affiliation to an operations research department of a polytechnic university, my passion for the mathematical beauty and for any form of intellectual recklessness drove my research orientation to underestimate the practical advantage of applied research, during my PhD period. Therefore, I would now regard my PhD thesis as a contribution to the mathematical sociology, more than a contribution to the operations research.
The Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is an "engineering oriented" department (with approx 40 permanent members, whose research works pivot mainly on the industrial engineering, the development of intelligent interfaces and automatic data processing, optimization and simulation of flows in networks). It was created in 1987 as a result of the University Reform Law, bringing together diverse groups of the university that until then had been working separately in the areas of the statistics and operations research.
My PhD thesis work has been framed within the research contribution of the Group of Numerical Optimization and Modeling (GNOM), under the supervision of Jordi Castro, one of the European top researchers in large-scale computational optimization.
In this section of my blog you will find a collection of documents that originate from the six chapters of my PhD thesis.
Despite my affiliation to an operations research department of a polytechnic university, my passion for the mathematical beauty and for any form of intellectual recklessness drove my research orientation to underestimate the practical advantage of applied research, during my PhD period. Therefore, I would now regard my PhD thesis as a contribution to the mathematical sociology, more than a contribution to the operations research.
The Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is an "engineering oriented" department (with approx 40 permanent members, whose research works pivot mainly on the industrial engineering, the development of intelligent interfaces and automatic data processing, optimization and simulation of flows in networks). It was created in 1987 as a result of the University Reform Law, bringing together diverse groups of the university that until then had been working separately in the areas of the statistics and operations research.
My PhD thesis work has been framed within the research contribution of the Group of Numerical Optimization and Modeling (GNOM), under the supervision of Jordi Castro, one of the European top researchers in large-scale computational optimization.
In this section of my blog you will find a collection of documents that originate from the six chapters of my PhD thesis.